Eric Benét wastes no time. The R&B crooner clapped back at Jay-Z on Twitter after the rapper dropped his name while seemingly confessing to having cheated on wife Beyoncé in new track “Kill Jay Z” off his new album, 4:44.
“You almost went Eric Benét / Let the baddest girl in the world get away / I don’t even know what else to say / N—a, never go Eric Benét,” Jay-Z raps in the song.
“Hey yo #Jayz! Just so ya know, I got the baddest girl in the world as my wife….like right now! ✌?,” Benét tweeted at the rap legend on Friday, June 30. (The music composer has been married to Manuela Testolini since 2011.)
Benét, 50, cheated on then-wife Halle Berry in the early 2000s. After admitting to having slept with about 10 other woman while married to Berry, Benét checked into a 35-day sex-addict rehab program. They later divorced in 2005.
On “Kill Jay Z,” the Grammy winning rapper also mentions Future and singer Ciara‘s cheating scandal.
“In the Future, other n—as playin’ football with your son,” the 44-year-old raps in reference to when the rapper cheated on his ex-fiancee, who is now married to NFL star Russell Wilson.
Jay-Z’s headline-making album titled track, 4:44, seemingly comes as an apology after Beyoncé sang in her highly successful visual album, Lemonade, that her man had been unfaithful.
“I apologize / Often womanized / Took for my child to be born to see through a woman’s eyes,” Jay-Z raps in the track. “I suck at love … It took too long for this song / I don’t deserve you. … ‘You did what with who?’ What good is a ménage à trois when you have a soulmate? ‘You risked that for Blue?’”
Click here for more of what sounds like confessions on Jay-Z’s new album.
